Recap Show: Kevin Wilson
Welcome to The Baseball Awakening Podcast where we dive into the raw, unfiltered, unsexy side of player development.
Summary:
On this episode, Host, Geoff Rottmayer, recaps his conversation with Kevin Wilson of KWBaseball.com. The biggest takeaways that he discussed on this show are:
- Coaching the person first, which coaches the hitter automatically.
- Since we tend to take this approach at Atheltic Mission, our focus is to be even better at it, and we will do so by caring more, believing more, and asking better questions such as, instead of saying John, How are you doing? We are going to ask, John what's on your mind.
- Willing to make adjustments.
- We recognize that everyone is different, we need to acknowledge this and recognized this with every hitter we have coming in forward.
- Break season down into weeks - Monday through Sunday
- We developed a hitting journal which you can access here.
- We will have our players go through this journal and review it week after week.
- We will be process focused.
- Have a routine
- We have all of our guys on a routine, but we are going to spend more time ensuring everyone understands why we are doing what we are doing. Have a purpose for everything.
- You can find a section in this is our journal which you can access here.
- Sit at end of the dugout and help hitters prepare for at-bats.
- We will sit at the end of the dugout and we will coach our hitters into getting ready for their at-bat and tell us what their approach and plan will be.
